The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it.

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

and say: “‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs.

He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

As they wail they will lament over you, chanting: “Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”

Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’”

Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

‘Do not fear, because I made a promise to your ancestors when they left Egypt, and my spirit even now testifies to you.’

“Sing out and be happy, Zion my daughter! For look, I have come; I will settle in your midst,” says the Lord.

Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.

Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the Lord live among the Israelites.”

for both of you rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the desert of Zin when you did not show me proper respect among the Israelites.

They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded.

Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and they fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because the Ephraimites insulted them, saying, “You Gileadites are refugees in Ephraim, living within Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s territory.”